Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
You have to love conversion stories, from the very real Saul on that road to Damascus, to the fictional Scrooge on a Dickensian Christmas morning, all the way to the stories of ‘Jane Roe’ and Bernard Nathanson, of which I wrote a few days ago, and so many countless others. They warm the heart, and[…]
In the midst of all our other problems, Canada is now pondering reinstating the authoritarian internet hate-speech law, C-13, which as the article states, ‘made it a discriminatory practice to convey messages over the phone or internet that contain “any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt,” as[…]
Pope Fabian (+250) was put to death on this day in the persecution of Emperor Decius, for refusing to offer idolatrous sacrifice, and this after a rather long reign of 14 years characterized by its rather amicable relations with Caesar, which allowed the good Pontiff to set up the hierarchical structure of the Church in[…]
In 1999 it was estimated that 24 million Americans—almost one in 10—do not admit allegiance to any particular faith denomination according to a four-year study of the religious orientation of adult residents of the United States conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University. According to the Pew Research Center, between 2007 and[…]
Oprah Winfrey’s epic speech at the Golden Globe Awards is already old news but her star power is not. The question remains: will she run against Donald Trump in 2020? The possibility was raised during the gala evening that saw female stars turn out in cleavaged black and amidst messages of solidarity with women who’ve[…]
I am not entirely sure what Christopher Nolan was going for in his recent re-make of Dunkirk, a visually lush version of the heroic evacuation of hundreds of thousands of British soldiers from the shores of France across the English Channel at the end of May, 1940. (There was an original 1958 film, which I[…]
So the infamous cutting of the hijab never happened. You may have heard: An eleven year old female Muslim student, supposedly minding her own business on her way to school, claimed some man sneaked up behind her to snatch a snippet from the cloth of her face covering, laughing all the while. The horror! The[…]
I am not sure what is happening within the Church, but to hear that the recently-appointed head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Father Maurizio Chiodi, reportedly justifying the use of artificial contraception in certain cases in a December 14th lecture is, to put it mildly, troubling. To put the matter more clearly, Father Chiodi’s claims,[…]
In response to a town-hall question during his cross-Canada tour, Prime Minister Trudeau doubled down on the controversial abortion attestation box on the application for government funding for student summer job grants, requiring applicants to testify in an explicit way their support for ‘reproductive rights’, including a woman’s free and untrammeled access to abortion. When[…]
The Way of the Lord Jesus http://twotlj.org Free resources in moral theology by Germain Grisez Useful for priests, deacons, seminarians, catechists, and teachers. * ** For more information, contact E. Christian Brugger ecbrugger7@gmail.com
